Since Kripke's reading and explaining, the question about Rule-Following has been a hot topic of western philosophy recently. I will show three different standpoints in my thesis: Kripke showed us anew skepticism------"there can be no fact about which function I meant",so "I apply the rule blindly". To give a solution, Kripke introduced "community", he alleged that "to ascribe a rule to somebody" depended on others' agreement , it is a conventionalism. This idea makes a great challenge to universal grammar ,which is on the basis of individual psychology, Chomsky disagreed with that absolutely. He denied " seeking for the background of the fact' following a rule'". According to Chomsky, a theory should be accepted as a real theory if it explains people's action beautifully. Considering the linguistic phenomena , we can assert a speaker is following the theory (rule), and owns the knowledge of language. But some others hold the idea , what Wittgenstein would do is not to solve the Skepticism with "community", he resisted Skepticism and stayed where rules function. |